" Bruxelles, M.Hayez, 1920-1921, lg.in-8°, 4 vols, 670 pp ; 788 pp ; 1048 pp ; 450 pp, sewn, orig. wrappers, printed in 400 numbered copies. Indexed, some plate illustrations. Henri Hymans (Antwerp 1836 - Brussels 1912) was the foremost art historian and art critic of his time and ended his career as curator of the Royal Library in Brussels. His complete works consist of a large collection of articles on mostly Flemish graphic artists or painters and sculptors. A dictionary of over 700 biographical entries on Flemish art (most of them edited in Thieme Becker to which he contributed). A huge collection (over 1000 pages) of his articles in the Parisian ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'' to which he contributed for over 25 years. Many of these articles deal with artistic life in Belgium (during the period 1886-1912). A collection of articles on Early Netherlandish painting, XVIIth & XIXth century art.."